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For VC-backed, early-stage founders who need real customers, not toy infrastructure. Get a secure, scalable, audit-ready AWS foundation in weeks, without hiring a full-time DevOps engineer.
Most early-stage startups duct-tape AWS together to ship faster—then pay for it in outages, security anxiety, and painful rewrites right when growth finally hits.
One engineer "knows the stack," nothing is in Terraform or CloudFormation, and every deploy feels like a gamble.
Public S3 buckets, wide-open security groups, no baseline IAM strategy—and investors quietly wonder if you're ready for real customers.
Founders debugging at 2am, engineers babysitting environments, and AWS bills growing faster than MRR.
I work hands-on with your team to design and implement a lean, modern AWS foundation that supports your next 12–24 months of growth—without overbuilding.
Your business
VC-backed, B2B product startup with 3–15 engineers, post-MVP and starting to feel infra strain.
Primary outcome
Secure, scalable, compliant AWS foundation you would be comfortable showing to investors and enterprise customers—without hiring internal DevOps yet.
Not a fit for
General consulting, random AWS tickets, or ad‑hoc hourly debugging. This is focused, foundational work.
A focused, time-boxed engagement that gets you from "it kind of works" to "we can confidently onboard customers and scale."
We map your product, team, current AWS setup, and where things feel fragile—so we only fix what truly matters for the next 12–24 months.
You get a concrete diagram and step-by-step plan covering accounts, networking, environments, deployment, security, and observability—ranked by impact vs effort.
We implement the foundation together: infra-as-code, CI/CD, basic security guardrails, logging, and dashboards—pairing with your engineers where it makes sense.
You leave with diagrams, documentation, runbooks, and a clear backlog of future improvements—plus the option to keep me on retainer as you scale.
Transparent, fixed-scope work tailored for VC-backed, early-stage startups that need a strong foundation before hiring a full platform team.
A focused engagement to get your AWS ready for real customers and investor diligence.
What is included:
Logistics:
Core project
$25,000 fixed project fee
Flat, all-in price for the AWS Foundation Sprint, agreed up front based on your current state and scope.
Ongoing options (optional)
Managed Infra Retainer • $3k–$10k/month
Ongoing management, upgrades, and monitoring of your AWS foundation after the sprint, sized to your footprint.
Strategic Cloud Advisory
Lightweight, CTO-level input on architecture and scaling decisions around major launches, large customers, and audits.
Not: general consulting, random AWS help, or one-off hourly debugging. This is focused, high-leverage infrastructure work.
Seed and early-stage, VC-backed product companies running (or about to run) on AWS who feel their current infrastructure is "good enough for now" but not something they'd be proud to show a major customer or investor. If you have a small engineering team, limited DevOps capacity, and growing production risk, this is for you.
Not at all. Many teams bring an existing, messy AWS account with resources created via the console. We keep what is working, stabilize what is risky, and gradually move critical pieces into infrastructure-as-code so you are not forced into a risky big-bang migration.
That is normal. Maybe you started on EC2 and RDS, or you are experimenting with ECS, EKS, or serverless. The goal is not to force you into a trendy architecture—it is to create a stable, observable, secure foundation around the services you actually use today, with a clear path for future evolution.
Yes. Some teams bring me in as a short-term partner to accelerate what an existing DevOps or platform engineer is already trying to build. In those cases, I focus on architecture decisions, patterns, and hard-won best practices so they do not have to reinvent everything themselves.
You keep everything: code, pipelines, diagrams, and docs. You can choose to fully own it with your team, bring me back for a follow-up sprint, or keep me on a lightweight advisory retainer to support your next milestones (major customer, SOC2, big traffic event, etc.).
Share a few details about your product and current AWS setup. I will review, reply personally, and suggest a time to talk through your foundation and scope.
I review submissions daily and only work with a small number of teams at a time.